Motivational Quotes

Fear

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Canfield, Jack

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Fear is excitement without breath.

Heller, Robert

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Hopkins, Tom

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

Theodosia Garrison

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The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!!

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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Maclaren, Alexander

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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Ashe, Arthur

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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All men have fears, but the Brave put down their fears and go forward. Sometimes to Death, but always to Victory.

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Stone, Oliver

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

Frost, Robert

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley